Fortuitous antixenosis in transgenic sugarcane: Antibiosis-expressing cultivar is refractory to ovipositing herbivore pests

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 886-894

  Bernal, Julio S ^a   Sétamou, Mamoudou ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Diatraea saccharalis; Eoreuma loftini; Galanthus nivalis agglutinin; Host plant resistance; Pleiotropy

Indexed keywords

HERBIVORE; HOST SELECTION; OVIPOSITION; PEST RESISTANCE; PEST SPECIES; SUGAR CANE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARUNDINARIA; DIATRAEA SACCHARALIS; EOREUMA LOFTINI; GALANTHUS NIVALIS; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; PYRALIDAE; SACCHARUM HYBRID CULTIVAR;

EID: 0141797316     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-32.4.886     Document Type: Article

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